Also potentially the most horrifying, if you transplant the text into the context of, say, a necromancer villain.
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Cancer survival rates are measured from date of diagnosis, not from date of "cancer not showing up in the test". The "clear up" time is included in the seven years.
But to be precise, you can't "clear up" cancer. First, because every one of us has cancer cells somewhere in our bodies. Our immune system takes care of them eventually, but a perfectly precise test would always find some. Second, because when a cancer cell isn't killed soon enough and becomes a malignant cancer, there is always the chance that one of the little ****ers managed to escape treatment, and lodged itself somewhere else, and it is now slowly and inexorably growing again somewhere where your immune system can't stop it fast enough. Like with AIDS, the best modern medicine can do is try to ensure you'll die of something else, but at current time, you can never be cured of cancer.
Grey Wolf
I'm surprised he didn't use LAX in today's comic to make a joke about lacrosse.
Hah! Today's strip fits quite nicely in the category described by the mouse-over text. :smallamused:
I specially like that the decline in quality predates the "ms paint era", which I can see someone argue the must have been some other, unidentified issue caused the decay, which only thanks to ms paint and powerpoint was it eventually counteracted.
(You know what they say about lies, damned lies and statistics? Same applies to graphs)
GW
http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1948
Yes, this does represent a real-world inbox. Go ahead, ask me how I know.
https://xkcd.com/1959/
A reminder from The Simpsons of how much time has passed.
And we find out the real reason why none of the characters age: at 11, Bart gets his Hogwarts letter.
It could be done. On the other hand, webcomics have come back from long breaks before. Monster's Garden, another comic I follow, abruptly stopped updating in October 2016, with no announcement of a hiatus or the end of the comic. There was no word about it for a year and a half, until it unexpectedly returned in February 2018, with a new page and a redesigned website.
The What Ifs have been halted for almost exactly a year now, It's quite possible that it will come back, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it was done for good. Or maybe it will be like Shortpacked, where there is one new page per year (Shortpacked officially "ended" in January 2015, but there has been a new April Fools Day page every year since then).
I dunno, I get the impression with the What Ifs that Randall is either bored with the whole idea, or he's discovered that collecting them in book form makes mucho loot and doesn't want to give them out free anymore! :smallsmile: I guess time will tell which it is.
New comic will be coming soon, and the wait is making me tap the table a lot. Or maybe that’s the Cafine. Sometimes I cant really tell.
Can you imagine the trouble Randall went through trying to arrange those tiles?
Taking the risk of looking dumb.. Is there a deeper meaning to Wednesday's comic I'm missing?
Also.. I guess I really should learn more about this tax thing.. Though thinks are slightly easier in Germany. As long as you don't care about saving money.
If the basic level is "taxes are different from the other two", then the deeper level is "actually, no they are not". In the end, personal data, the economy and taxes are three poorly understood nebulous concepts that we nevertheless all participate in, whether we want to or not, and ignoring any of the three can have grave consequences. Yes, taxes has a more direct consequence for neglecting it, but not necessarily a worse one than having your identity stolen or (in the US, where they don't get a proper retirement safety net like you do in Germany) risk having no savings or income after your working days are over.
(frogs, jokes, you know the drill)
Grey Wolf
Are taxes really that nebulous? I mean, the finer idea of how much you need to pay and what you can save maybe but... why they are there...? Economy seems most nebulous because it can kind of include everything, if you want..
Also, I was asking about Wednesday, the Domino one.. :smallwink:
Wow, there’s a lot hidden in today’s comic.
https://www.xkcd.com/1975/
This is absolutely hilarious for such a simple single panel image.
RSS didn't work well with that...
I spent way longer than I should have trying to "win" Games/Adventure.EXE. Although I was dissapointed that it still shows up as "exe" even if you got there via /home/usr/games/adventure. What is a Windows executable doing on a Linux system? Especially a text-based adventure game that you probably got by installing it from your default package repository. The answers for 20 Questions were pretty funny though.
I don't nearly have enough endurance to go through the whole comic, which I admit is a shame but it's funny nonetheless :smallbiggrin:
Sidenote : has anybody an idea why there was no comic for Prof Hawking? I mean, he appeared before and Randall has done multiple comics in memory of recent deaths, so.. I was just wondering. Of course it could have no reason.